being translated, means `Skull-ground.'
015:023 Here they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He refused it.
015:024 Then they crucified Him. This done, they divided His garments
among them, drawing lots to decide what each should take.
015:025 It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified Him.
015:026 Over His head was the notice in writing of the charge
against Him: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
015:027 And together with Jesus they crucified two robbers, one at His
right hand and one at His left.
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015:029 And all the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads
at Him and said, "Ah! you who were for destroying the Sanctuary
and building a new one in three days,
015:030 come down from the cross and save yourself."
015:031 In the same way the High Priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on
scoffing at Him, saying to one another, "He has saved others:
himself he cannot save!
015:032 This Christ, the King of Israel, let him come down now from
the cross, that we may see and believe." Even the men
who were being crucified with Him heaped insults on Him.
015:033 At noon there came a darkness over the whole land, lasting till
three o'clock in the afternoon.
015:034 But at three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
"Elohi, Elohi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, My God,
why hast Thou forsaken me?"
015:035 Some of the bystanders, hearing Him, said, "Listen, he is
calling for Elijah!"
015:036 Then a man ran to fill a sponge with sour wine, and he put it
on the end of a cane and placed it to His lips, saying at
the same time, "Wait! let us see whether Elijah will come